Feed-water apparatus



' C. M. WILCUX. Feed-17172111361 Apparatus.

No. 226,141 Patented Mar. 30, 1880.

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IINTTED STATES PATENT Trina y CHARLES M. WILCOX, OF NEW PARIS, OHIO.

FEED-WATER APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming` part of Letters Patent No. 226,141, dated March 30, 1880.

Application filed January 19` 1680.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES M. WILGOX, of New Paris, in the county of Preble and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Feed-Water Apparatus 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, and in which the drawing represents a side elevation.

This invention relates to devices for feeding boilers without the use of feed-pumps or similar apparatus; and it consists in the construction and combination of parts of a vacuum feed-water apparatus, substantially as hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawing, A is the boiler, which may be of any suitable size and construction. B is a tank or reservoir, located some distance above the boiler, with which it communicates through a steam-pipe, C, and water-pipe D, arranged as shown on the drawing. Eis a supply-pipe, which extends from the well F up to the reservoir B, which is further provided with a funnel, b. rIhe letters c, d, and c denote stop-cocks on pipes C, D, and E, respectively, by which these may be closed or opened, as required in operating the apparatus.

rIhe operation is asfollows: The tank or reservoir B is iilled with water through its funnel b or supply-pipe E, after which the boiler is fed by opening pipe D. lVhen the boiler has received a sufficient amount of water, pipe Dis closed and pipe C is opened, which lets steam into tank B and equalizes the pressure in this and in the boiler.

lVhen it is desired to replenish the supply of water in the boiler, pipe C is closed, when the steam contained in tank B will rapidly condense, (the funnel b being closed,) thus creating a vacuum. Pipe E is now opened, when the vacuum in the tank will draw the water up and iill it, after which pipe E is again closed, while C and D are opened, and so on.

Having thus described my invention, l claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- In a water-feeder for boilers, the combination, with a boiler, A, of the elevated watertank B, the pipe D, entering the upper end ot' the boiler and connected by an elbow with a cock, e., directly to the Lipper end of the reservoir or tank B, pipe C, connecting by a rightangled pipe with a cock, c, the lower end of the reservoir to the lower part of the boiler, the reservoir supply-pipe b, and well-pipe E, having a cock, d, and connected to the reservoir B,'all constructed and arranged substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afXed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES M. WILCOX.

Witnesses:

L. C. SEVEREN, C. S. SAGKMAN. 

